Der Stürmer was a weekly Nazinewspaper published by Julius Streicher from 1923 to the end of World War II in 1945. It was a significant part of the Nazi propaganda machinery and was vehemently anti-Semitic. Unlike the Völkischer Beobachter, the official party paper which gave itself an outwardly serious appearance, the tabloid-style Der Stürmer often ran obscene materials such as pornography, mixed with extremely anti-Semitic caricatures and open, undisguised hate propaganda. Most of its readers were young people and people from the lowest strata of German society.
Der Stürmer was most notorious for its anti-Semitic cartoons, most of which portrayed Jews as ugly characters with exaggerated facial features and misshapen bodies. At the bottom of the title page there was always the motto "Die Juden sind unser Unglück!" ("The Jews are our misfortune!").
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Simon Wiesenthal Center Multimedia Learning Center Online (http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/pages/t075/t07521.html)
Caricatures from Der Stürmer (http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/sturmer.htm)
Der Stürmer: "A Fierce and Filthy Rag" (http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/faculty/streich3.htm)
Der Stürmer ("The Attacker") was a weekly Nazi newspaper published by Julius Streicher from 1923 to the end of World War II in 1945, with a brief suspension in circulation during the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
After the war, Streicher was tried at the Nuremberg trials for crimes against humanity, for his role in inciting Germans to exterminate Jews through his publishing activities which was presented as evidence leading to his conviction and execution.
Der Stürmer was most notorious for its anti-Semitic cartoons, most of which portrayed Jews as ugly characters with exaggerated facial features and misshapen bodies.
This has caused Der Stuermer to be under constant attack by the Jews.
Der Stuermer has come to know the Jew from the confession which Dr. Conrad Alberti-Sittenfeld, a Jew, wrote in 1899 in No. 12 of the magazine GESELLSCHAFT: "One of the most dangerous Jewish qualities is brutal, direct, barbaric intolerance.
With this verdict Der Stuermer brought about the first big breach in the Jewish administration of justice, which was given the job before the National Socialist revolution of protecting Judaism and the government.
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